Stardew Valley is a farming simulator where earning income from crops and subcontract animals is essential to progress through the game. Barns are one of the buildings that yous tin place on your farm in guild to raise cattle, and they can be upgraded. Equally you invest more than and more resources into a befouled you can enhance more kinds of animals.

Buildings are specially important on the new Beach map, where crops aren't as easy to grow. The barn animals' products can also exist turned into fifty-fifty more valuable appurtenances, with a piddling extra time. This guide details everything you need to know about your shiny new befouled, and how to earn the most money from your investment.

Updated on Jan five, 2022: Need a more visual guide on how barns and barn animals work in Stardew Valley? We've added our video guide below for a closer look at them.

Barn Levels

Stardew Valley Barn and Upgrades Split Image

Every barn takes upward a 7x4 space on the subcontract, and so there'due south no need to worry virtually actress space equally information technology gets upgraded. To move your barn, speak to Robin at her home outside of town, inquire to build new buildings, and so select the 'Move Buildings' option in the lesser right. These are the different befouled levels available:

Befouled Big Barn Palatial Barn
Construction Details
  • Built brand new!
  • Takes x days to build
  • Must be congenital on top of an existing barn.
  • Takes two days to upgrade
  • Must be built on pinnacle of an existing befouled.
  • Takes 2 days to upgrade
Building Materials Required
  • 6,000g
  • 350 Woods
  • 150 Stone
  • 12,000g
  • 450 Wood
  • 200 Stone
  • 25,000g
  • 550 Wood
  • 300 Rock
Number Of Animals Information technology Tin can Concur 4 8 12
Kinds Of Animals It Can Hold
  • Cow
  • Ostrich
  • Goat (in one case unlocked in a Big Barn)
  • Sheep (once unlocked in a Deluxe Barn)
  • Pig (once unlocked in a Deluxe Barn)
  • Cow
  • Ostrich
  • Caprine animal
  • Sheep (once unlocked in a Deluxe Barn)
  • Squealer (once unlocked in a Deluxe Barn)
  • Cow
  • Ostrich
  • Caprine animal
  • Sheep
  • Sus scrofa
Kinds Of Animals Unlocked
  • Cow (unlocked after building your first Befouled, and so tin can be purchased from Marnie)
  • Ostrich (unlocked by incubating Ostrich Eggs in an Ostrich Incubator in any size barn)
  • Goat (unlocked after building your showtime Big Befouled, then can exist purchased from Marnie)
  • Sheep (unlocked later on building your commencement Deluxe Befouled, and then can exist purchased from Marnie)
  • Pig (unlocked after building your first Palatial Barn, then can exist purchased from Marnie)
Size 7 spaces long, 4 spaces wide seven spaces long, 4 spaces wide vii spaces long, 4 spaces wide
Special Features
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Demote
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Demote
  • Power For Animals To Become Pregnant
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Bench
  • Ability For Animals To Get Meaning
  • Machine-Feed Arrangement

Special Features, Explained

Stardew Valley - Inside a Deluxe Barn with arrows pointing out special features

The initial barn comes with a hay hopper, which allows y'all to access hay from your silos inside the barn, likewise every bit a feeding bench to lay out hay for the animals to eat.

On peak of the hay hopper and feeding bench, the big befouled allows your animals to get pregnant and have babies. Pregnancy is an option that can be switched on and off for each individual brute, except for ostriches. You will know that an animal got pregnant because, when entering a befouled for the first time that solar day, a message will pop upwardly to say that they gave nascency and asking you lot to enter a proper name for the new baby.

The Deluxe Befouled comes with the hay hopper, feeding bench, and pregnancy options from the previous models, but information technology also adds an "motorcar-feed organisation" that distributes hay along the feeding demote so long as you have enough stored in your silo. While it's a huge relief not to take to feed your animals every twenty-four hour period past paw, it too means that y'all demand to be extra conscientious to keep your silo stocked. If you happen to not check on a detail barn or coop ane mean solar day, you lot may not observe that you've run out of hay.

The Animals

Stardew Valley Barn Animals, (Left to Right) Cow Sheep Pig Ostrich Goat Split Image

Animals need to be fed one portion (one hay or a bit of fresh grass) every twenty-four hour period, except under special weather condition:

  • They don't need to be fed the first mean solar day they arrive on the farm (whether born, hatched, or purchased)
  • They don't need to be fed on whatsoever festival day; the game will consider them fed but will consume no hay or grass (the exception to this rule is the Night Market place in wintertime, which you lot tin exit or enter freely)

If an brute isn't fed they will non die, but they will cease producing their products.

Note: The sale price for animal products is increased by 20% if you have the Rancher Profession. Too, the processed artisan goods made from animate being products will sell for twoscore% more than golden if you have the Artisan Profession.

Cow

Stardew Valley - Player milking Cows
  • How To Unlock And Obtain: Purchased from Marnie for 1,500g one time y'all've built your offset barn
  • Produces: Every Twenty-four hours - Milk (or Large Milk, once sufficient friendship and happiness levels are reached)
  • Tools Needed: Pail
  • Associated Artisan Practiced(s): Cheese, made by putting Milk into a Cheese Press
  • Sell Price At Total Friendship: 1,950g

In that location are 2 varieties of cows (white and brown) and the game chooses a color at random (l/fifty chance) when you purchase one. The type of cow does not make a difference to the milk they produce.

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silvery Quality Sell Cost Aureate Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Milk 125g 156g 187g 250g
Big Milk 190g 237g 285g 380g
Cheese 230g 287g 345g 460g

Ostrich

Stardew Valley - Player standing with a bunch of Ostriches
  • How To Unlock And Obtain: Ostriches can't be purchased. They can simply be caused by hatching an Ostrich Egg in an Ostrich Incubator.
  • Produces: Every Seven Days - Ostrich Eggs
  • Tools Needed: N/A
  • Associated Artisan Good(s): Mayonnaise, made by putting an Ostrich Egg into a Mayonnaise Machine (one Ostrich Egg produces 10 jars of Mayonnaise)
  • Sell Price At Full Friendship: 20,800g
Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silvery Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Ostrich Egg 600g 750g 900g ane,200g
Mayonnaise 190g 237g 237g 380g

Goat

Stardew Valley - Player standing with her goats
  • How To Unlock And Obtain: Purchased from Marnie for 4,000g once you've built your first Big Barn
  • Produces: Every Other 24-hour interval - Goat Milk (or Large Caprine animal Milk, once sufficient friendship and happiness levels are reached)
  • Tools Needed: Pail
  • Associated Artisan Practiced(south): Goat Cheese, made past putting Goat Milk into a Cheese Press
  • Sell Price At Full Friendship: 5,200g
Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silverish Quality Sell Price Aureate Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Caprine animal Milk 225g 281g 337g 450g
Large Goat Milk 345g 431g 517g 690g
Goat Cheese 400g 500g 600g 800g

Sheep

Stardew Valley - Player standing with her sheep
  • How To Unlock And Obtain: Purchased from Marnie for 8,000g once you've built your start Palatial Barn
  • Produces: Every Third Day - Wool
  • Tools Needed: Shears
  • Associated Artisan Proficient(southward): Cloth, made past putting Wool into a Loom
  • Sell Price At Full Friendship: 10,400g
Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Toll Silver Quality Sell Toll Aureate Quality Sell Cost Iridium Quality Sell Price
Wool 340g 425g 510g 680g
Textile 470g N/A N/A N/A

Wool can be turned into cloth by a Loom. If the wool is high quality, there's a chance that information technology'll produce two batches of Cloth. Silver quality has a 10% gamble, golden quality has a 25% chance, and iridium quality has a 50% chance.

Squealer

Stardew Valley - Player standing with a bunch of pigs
  • How To Unlock And Obtain: Purchased from Marnie for 16,000g once you've built your offset Deluxe Barn
  • Produces: Truffles
  • Tools Needed: N/A
  • Associated Artisan Good(southward): Truffle Oil, made by putting Truffles into an Oil Maker
  • Sell Price At Full Friendship: 20,800g

Unlike other animals, y'all don't collaborate with the squealer to get their production, and the sus scrofa won't produce anything if they're trapped within the barn. The reason to buy pigs is so that they will snuff out truffles for you.

Pigs will find ane truffle every day, assuming these conditions are met:

  • they take been fed
  • they are exterior the barn (so information technology is not raining, snowing, storming, or Wintertime)
  • in that location are bachelor spaces to place a truffle (spaces with no paths, flooring, grass, etc.)
Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Cost Iridium Quality Sell Price
Truffle 625g 781g 937g 1,250g
Truffle Oil ane,065g N/A North/A N/A

Animals Outside

Stardew Valley Barn Animals Outside

During The Mean solar day

If you lot let your barn animals to exist outside, it will help to meliorate their mood — animals are like plants, they need sunlight too!

While exterior, barn animals will eat fresh grass growing on the farm, bold they tin can attain it. This will count as their daily portion, so they won't consume hay from your stash. Just considering the grass is technically in a place they could achieve does not hateful that the animal is guaranteed to discover and swallow it — if they don't, they will swallow hay.

Eating fresh grass gives animals the very all-time mood possible (existence "very happy today!") automatically. Animals who wander outside and have access to crops growing on the subcontract will not eat your crops.

Animals don't leave the barn, even if the door is open, under certain conditions...

  • if information technology's later on 6 p.m.
  • if it'southward Winter
  • if it's rainy, stormy, or snowy

At Night

Stardew Valley - Player with sleepy cow
via u/the-mage-cow on Reddit

Animals will render to their assigned building around 6 p.m. in the evening and go to slumber. If you aren't using an Auto-Grabber, yous tin close the doors at this time so the animals will not escape in the morning before you tin can interact with them.

If you lot close a barn door before all the animals have returned for the night, the ones that are however exterior volition be trapped. If it rains the next day, the animals volition fifty-fifty stay out in the rain. No matter the conditions, if they were trapped outside overnight, their mood volition be grumpy the next mean solar day.

Barn animals left out may also be attacked by wild fauna during the night. In that location's a 50% run a risk for a wild fauna assail to occur, and so long as some animal was left outside and no other events (such every bit a Bundle consequence) are set to occur. The attacked barn creature is removed from the farm, and the other animals from its home befouled will accept a negative mood, with a message reading that the animals "look stressed and paranoid today. It seems like something bad happened last night."

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